yearnings

英 [ˈjɜːnɪŋz]

美 [ˈjɜrnɪŋz]

n.  渴望; 向往
yearning的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 渴望;强烈愿望;向往
  Ayearningfor something is a very strong desire for it.
  1. He spoke of his yearning for another child...
     他说起了自己想再要一个孩子的强烈愿望。
  2. He always had a yearning to be a schoolteacher.
     他一直渴望当老师。

双语例句

• For many, the yearnings of their spiritual nature are expressed by church or synagogue membership.
  许多人是通过教堂或参加宗教组织来表达他们的精神上的渴望。
• Crumbling markets, huge layoffs and widespread financial panic have unleashed a giant wave of creative yearnings.
  变得颤颤微微的市场，大量下岗还有大面积惊恐已经释放了一个创造力渴求的巨大浪潮。
• Indeed, yearnings are positive feelings;
  的确，渴望是一种积极的情感；
• Such fantastic pictures of future society, painted at a time when the proletariat is still in a very undeveloped state and has but a fantastic conception of its own position correspond with the first instinctive yearnings of that class for a general reconstruction of society.
  这种对未来社会的幻想的描绘，是在无产阶级还很不发展、因而对本身的地位的认识还基于幻想的时候，同无产阶级对社会普遍改造的最初的本能的渴望相适应的。
• They felt strong yearnings toward home.
  他们封家乡有着强烈的思念之情。
• You have to discard your yearnings for the profane world once you become a monk.
  一入禅门，你要抛却自己对于尘世的眷恋。
• Certainly the Washington of my memory is shaped by my soul at the time, by its yearnings and losses and hopes, all for other things.
  当然，我对华盛顿的记忆是由我当时的心灵状态，它的向往、它的失却与希望涉及的完全是其他事物形成的。
• Those yearnings and ideals, especially the ideology of great harmony in them, are historically linked to constructing harmonious society nowadays.
  这些憧憬、理想与当前提出构建和谐社会有着许多历史的联系，其中大同思想尤为突出。
• Special programs depicting Beijing's progress in its preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games and its residents 'enthusiastic participation and earnest yearnings will be filmed and shown on television.
  拍摄、播放反映北京筹办2008年奥运会进展情况和市民热情参与、喜盼奥运的专题节目；
• Although they were physically intimate on a regular basis, Harriet was increasingly conscious of inchoate desires, of unappeased yearnings, the source of which she could not quite pin down.
  尽管他们常有身体上的的亲昵行为，但哈莉特还是隐约感到有种愈来愈强、扼制不住的欲望没有得到满足。